Flipboard, the popular news reading app for iOS, has added a Books category that integrates with Apple’s iBookstore.
Flipboard announced the new category on its blog today, noting that the new Books category includes 25 sections of the most popular books from the iBookstore. “It’s like browsing in a bookstore, right from your Flipboard,” the company blog says.
The integration allow users to read summaries of individual iBookstore books while in the Flipboard app. Also provided is a button to download the complete book to iBooks via the iBookstore. The feature is available in numerous countries, including U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, The Netherlands and Brazil.
